Tag: nature

The wild places, body

Spring Grove, PA welcome sign
Photo from years ago when i was still able to run. My Small town, USA. My creek, barn, and “woods” is a mile or two from this welcome sign.

Why do you love the wild places?

From an early age, nature and all of Pennsylvania’s wild things, bugs, flowers, birds, creek critters, fish – all of it mesmerized me.

Inexplicably felt blessed by this before ever learning what a blessing is.

As i grew closer to 10 years old, i started walking further from home.

Why?

To get to the creek across the corn field.

To get to the barn across the two-lane country road (highway).

And to get to the woods well past the corn field’s creek and up the hill through another corn field. The ‘Woods” as we called this small (couple, three acres, maybe) un-plowable patch of land, full of trees, brush, rocks, and creatures untold.

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Can’t turn this off either

Gala Apples bag empty
Cheryl went to grocery store. Asked for four bags. i eat 4-5 small Gala apples a day.

Have an insatiable desire to stay well, age well, and have healthy fun.

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Spring Fever?

Disney’s PhotoPass Cast Member created some Magical Moments by spending time with us because we had a fever?

Spring Fever?

Of course.

It’s part of Nature’s way.

Nature has been doing things for much longer than humans have roamed the earth.

Nature knows what it is doing.

Humans work hard to tame the savage beast.

But killing is how a carnivore lives.

COVID-19 reminds a lot of people how lifestyle is like a carnivore on the prowl for a meal.

A distracted lifestyle is exactly what a carnivore looks for first when hungry.

Yes, Nature can be brutal.

And in a way, we can be brutal to ourselves.

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Nature is beautiful and challenging

This Opossum has an open wound on it’s back. It’s chances of survival are at risk. Photo: yesterday morning during run.

Nature is beautiful and challenging.

Survival of the fittest (strength and intellect).

An incurable, but not terminal, human disease challenges a human to stay strong and smart about their disease.

While some incurable diseases aren’t terminal, not staying strong and smart can lead to other diseases which are not only terminal, but carry a high percentage mortality rate, like colon cancer for example.

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Nature doesn’t intend to be heartless

vultures drying their wings
Yesterday biking home from the barbershop – vultures drying their rain-soaked wings.

 

Nature doesn’t intend to be heartless.

While nature is literally barbaric, i can’t fathom that nature is vengeful.

It’s simply a matter of daily survival.

Animals are highly motivated to feed themselves every day – and not get eaten in the process.

What about us?

What are we highly motivated to do each day?

It certainly doesn’t revolve around scavenging for sustenance.

 

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